Satisfying a maximum number of pre-routed requests in all-optical rings

  • Authors:
  • Christos Nomikos;Aris Pagourtzis;Stathis Zachos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 45 110 Ioannina, Greece;Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland and Department of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece;Department of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece and CIS Department, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Small and home networks
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We address the problem of maximizing the number of satisfied requests in all-optical networks that use wavelength division multiplexing . We consider the case where requests are pre-routed and formulate it as the maximum path coloring problem. We study the problem for rings and present a (2/3)-approximation algorithm. Along the way we develop a fast matching technique for a special class of bipartite graphs. By using this technique we achieve an O( n + m log L ) time complexity for our approximation algorithm, where n is the number of nodes, m is the number of requests and L is the maximum load of requests on a single link.